title: Barriers to implementing a quality improvement program.
abstract: Critical barriers can prevent the implementation of an effective quality improvement (QI) program in the health care setting, including organizational culture, restructuring, quality assurance/quality control functions, QI teams and costs. Common pitfalls encountered that cause QI programs to falter--or worse, to fail--are discussed.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Messner
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006754:Hospital Restructuring / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D015279:Organizational Culture; D013997:Time Factors; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000458:organization & administration*